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Did you ever notice how many songs there are about the music business itself? I think the popular music industry is possibly even more self-referential than the newspaper industry (though not nearly as self-referential as the Internet.). I started hearing the connection a few years ago and began collecting examples in a playlist, and I finally have enough to share with you.Of special note is the hip-hop section (coming just after Joe Pernice's wry anti-anthem decrying touring, "We Love the Stage"), featuring "Check the Rhime," origin of "Music industry rule #4080/record company people are shady," followed by Steinski's record industry slag off mix of "Hit the Disco," wrapping up with J-Live's epochal "Them That's Not," which features the most astonishing bit of tempo bending that I'm aware of.